Lost in the customhouse : authorship in the American renaissance /

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In this vigorous challenge to dominant literary criticism, Jerome Loving extends the traditional period of American literary rebirth to the end of the 19th century and argues for the intrinsic value of literature in the face of new historicist and deconstructionist readings. Bucking the trend for re...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Loving, Jerome, 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1993.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Geschichte 1830-1870.
Geschichte 1819-1900.
Geschichte 1830-1900.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Authorship > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Self in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Art d'écrire > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Authorship > Social aspects
Literature and society
Self in literature
Literatur
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue; Acknowledgments; THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE : PART ONE; 1. living's Paradigm; 2. Hawthorne's Awakening in the Customhouse; 3. Melville's High on the Seas; 4. Poe's Voyage from Edgartown; 5. Emerson's Beautiful Estate; 6. Thoreau's Quarrel with Emerson; THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE : PART TWO; 7. Whitman's Idea of Women; 8. Twain's Cigar-Store Indians; 9. Dickinson's Unpublished Canon; 10. Henry James's Pearl at a Great Price; 11. Chopin's Twenty-Ninth Bather; 12. Dreiser's Novel About a Nun; Epilogue; Notes; Index.

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